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Most of them do plenty of bad shit but at least for a company like Amazon you can make the case that their logistics and infrastructure delivers real value and
by Barrin92 5y ago
Most of them do plenty of bad shit but at least for a company like Amazon you can make the case that their logistics and infrastructure delivers real value and moves material goods around the world and creates quite harsh but at least reasonably paying blue collar jobs whereas Facebook and other 'social media' giants' drive political discourse to ruins, teenagers mad, and employ hordes of underpaid gig workers to sift through child abuse content and other horrid crap.
And that aside you're not forced to work for FAANG. Plenty of small companies around who do good work in healthcare or what have you, or national security, the defense sector and other public sectors desperately looking for engineers.
Plenty of work to do that is more meaningful than getting kids to click on ads.
- culopatin 5y agoWhere do they post these gig jobs you’re talking about? Do you have an example?
- Barrin92 5y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo... here's a pretty extensive article about it, no idea where they advertise these.
- wikidani 5y ago>reasonably paying blue collar jobs As a disclaimer, I'm not from the US and my sources might be entirely biased but I thought a big chunk of amazon employees were ill paid and on foodstamps?
- Barrin92 5y agoThey pay a starting wage of about 18 - 22 bucks an hour depending on the location for warehouse workers. For comparison, that's somewhat more than twice the federal minimum wage or what you make as a cashier, say. https://www.reuters.com/business/amazon-hire-125000-workers-pay-hourly-wages-18-2021-09-14/ https://www.reuters.com/business/amazon-hire-125000-workers-...